Ezekiel 45:1-17. The portions of land assigned for maintenance to the priests, levites and prince respectively; with the dues which the people shall pay the prince, in return for which he shall provide the ritual (1) Ezekiel 45:1. The oblation (terumah) of land for maintenance of priests, Levites a... [ Continue Reading ]
_divide_by lot] So the phrase originally signified, but probably it came to mean merely "divide" or assign portions to. Ezek. definitely fixes the positions of the tribes, and each tribe appears to have the same extent of territory assigned to it. _offer an oblation_ Cf. Ezekiel 44:30. _holy porti... [ Continue Reading ]
In this sacred territory, more particularly, in the half of it assigned to the priests (Ezekiel 45:3), shall the sanctuary be situated, a square of 500, surrounded by a free space of 50 cubits on all sides. The 500 are certainly cubits, cf. Ezekiel 42:20. _the suburbs thereof_ What the "suburbs" are... [ Continue Reading ]
The portion of the sacred land assigned to the priests shall consist of a tract 25,000 long by 10,000 broad. _sanctuary_and _the most holy_ SANCTUARY, (even) THE MOST HOLY THING. The whole area of land is holy, the sanctuary most holy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Read: AN HOLY PORTION OF THE LAND IS IT, IT SHALL BE FOR, &c. _holy place for the sanctuary_ Lit. _a sanctuary for the sanctuary_. The use of "sanctuary" in the sense of sacred territory can hardly be supported by evidence, though the idea of a sacred territory around a sacred house or locality is... [ Continue Reading ]
Read: AND FIVE …, AND TEN … SHALL THE LEVITES HAVE. (The Keri is unnecessary). for _twenty chambers_ Probably with LXX.: FOR CITIES TO DWELL IN. Cf. same words Numbers 35:2; Joshua 14:4. In Ezekiel 45:6 Jerusalem, with its suburbs, is assigned a tract of land only half of this given to the Levites.... [ Continue Reading ]
The city possesses a strip of land 5000 cubits broad and 25,000 long, running parallel to the portion of the priests, cf. Ezekiel 48:15. The city shall stand in the midst of this tract, which it entirely covers N. to S., cf. Ezekiel 48:16-17.... [ Continue Reading ]
The domain of the prince. A portion of land shall fall to the prince equal in breadth (N. to S.) to the whole square assigned to the priests, Levites and city (viz. 25,000), and extending on both sides of this square to the borders of the country, to the Jordan on the E., and the sea on the W. _and... [ Continue Reading ]
_In the land_… _possession_ IN THE LAND IT SHALL BE TO HIM FOR A POSSESSION, lit. in respect of the land. Others: _for a domain_it shall be …, for a possession. The _art_. must then be omitted, and the use of "land" in this sense is unnatural. _my princes_ The language _my_is unusual. In Ezekiel 45... [ Continue Reading ]
_take away your exactions_ Lit. _remove your expulsions_from my people. Ref. probably to unjust extrusion of persons from their possessions, of which the early prophets often complain, Isaiah 5:8; Micah 2:9; Micah 3:2-3, and the story of Naboth, 1 Kings 21.... [ Continue Reading ]
The dues to be given the prince, and his obligations to provide the materials for the ritual. Ezekiel 45:9 _seq_. The former unjust and irregular exactions of the princes shall cease. These exactions had not only been oppressive in their nature, but unjust and arbitrary from want of a fixed standar... [ Continue Reading ]
Cf. Leviticus 19:35-36; Deuteronomy 25:13-15; Micah 6:10-11 (the accursed scanty ephah); Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10. From this it appears that the words of Amos 8:5 "making the ephah small and the shekel large" are more than a figure.... [ Continue Reading ]
The homer is assumed as the standard both for liquid and dry measures. The ephah was a tenth of the homer, dry measure; and the bath a tenth of the homer, liquid measure, Isaiah 5:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cf. Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; Numbers 18:16. The verse at present is without meaning. Read after LXX. (cod. Alex.): AND THE SHEKEL SHALL BE TWENTY GERAHS; FIVE (shekels) SHALL BE FIVE, AND TEN SHEKELS TEN, AND FIFTY SHEKELS SHALL BE YOUR MANEH (mina). The text is grammatically sus... [ Continue Reading ]
_oblation_… _offer_ The people are addressed. The due which they shall pay the prince is one sixtieth in grain. For, of an homer, rather: OUT OF an homer.... [ Continue Reading ]
The cor was another name for the homer, 1 Kings 5:2; 2 Chronicles 2:9; 2 Chronicles 27:5. which is _a homer_… _baths_ TEN BATHS ARE AN HOMER. The words are wanting in LXX. The due in oil was one-hundredth part.... [ Continue Reading ]
The due out of the flock was one in two hundred. _the fat pastures_ lit. _the watered_land of Israel (Genesis 13:10). LXX. reads, _out of all the families_of Israel. These dues from the flock and from the soil were for purposes of sacrifice and offering (Ezekiel 45:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
A.V. margins on this verse ought to be deleted. The words "all the people of the land" are anomalous grammatically; LXX. omits "of the land.... [ Continue Reading ]
In return for these dues paid him by the people the prince shall be charged with providing the sacrifices for public worship. _he shall prepare_ PROVIDE. The "feasts" were the three great festivals, passover or unleavened bread (easter), the feast of weeks, or pentecost, and the feast of ingatheri... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 45:18-25. Offerings at the feasts 18 20. The stated atonement for the sanctuary twice in the year on the first day of the first month (Ezekiel 45:18); and on the first day of the seventh month (Ezekiel 45:20). The sin-offering on both occasions shall be a young bullock _to cleanse_, better:... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 45:18 to Ezekiel 46:24. The offerings to be made at the feasts and other appointed seasons (1) Ezekiel 45:18-25. Offerings at the feasts. (2) Ezekiel 46:1-11. Offerings for the sabbaths and new moons. (3) Ezekiel 45:12. Voluntary offerings of the prince. (4) Ezekiel 45:13. The daily burn... [ Continue Reading ]
Ceremonial with the blood. The blood shall be put on the door-posts of the house (Ezekiel 41:21), on the four corners of the great "settle" of the altar (Ezekiel 43:20), and upon the door-posts of the gateway of the inner court which gateway is not specified, probably that at which the victims were... [ Continue Reading ]
_seventh_day _of the month_ The text can hardly be so rendered. Probably: IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE NEW MOON (i.e. the first day). LXX. fully: in the seventh month, on the first day of the month. An atonement was made for the sanctuary, purifying it from the defilements of the people, at the begi... [ Continue Reading ]
The feasts. The passover on the fourteenth of the first month _feast of seven days_ So no doubt Heb. should be read, with the ancient versions. At present it reads: a feast of weeks of days. Ezekiel omits all ref. to the so-called feast of weeks, i.e. pentecost, seven weeks after the unleavened bre... [ Continue Reading ]
_prepare for himself_ PROVIDE, Ezekiel 45:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
_kid of the goats_ A HE GOAT. For prepare, PROVIDE, so Ezekiel 45:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Feast of tabernacles on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Render: IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, IN THE FEAST, SHALL HE DO THE LIKE, THE SEVEN DAYS. The "feast" is that of tabernacles, the feast _par excellence_of the year, concluding the yearly round of festivals (Is... [ Continue Reading ]